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June 18, 2020

The Battle That Was Not a Battle

Parshat Shelach The well-known story related to us in our haftarah this week, the story of Yehoshua’s spies and the events that took place in

To ‘Sea’ Deeper

What does it mean to “see”? In common vernacular, when people say “I see,” they don’t usually mean to say “I see what is right

God’s Numbers Game

Rashi, in this week’s parsha, quotes the midrash that it really should have taken the spies double the time to travel the length and width

Dream Amelioration via Zoom

Many centuries before the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) studied dreams, their meaning for and impact on the individual, the Sages of the Talmud (Berachot

The Twelve Tribes of Israel

Reviewing: “Tribal Blueprints: Twelve Brothers and the Destiny of Israel,” by Nechama Price. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 308 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592645459. With a few

Insights Into Learning

Reviewing: “Tzurba M’Rabanan—Volumes 1-5,” by Benzion Algazi. Doron Podlashuk, Eli Ozarowski, translators. Mizrachi Press. 2019. Paperback. English. 344 pages. One of the challenges of learning

The Torah: A Love Story

Highlighting themes from: “The Narrow Halakhic Bridge: A Vision of Jewish Law in the Postmodern Age,” by Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth. Urim Publications. 2020. English. Hardcover.

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